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1965 – The Watts riots in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, lasts six days and is the first of several major urban riots due to racial issues. 1966 – Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) established; 1966 – Department of Transportation created; 1966 – National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act; 1966 – Miranda v.
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "' 50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II , aided by the post-World War II economic expansion .
1950s political conferences (11 P) 1950s coups d'état and coup attempts (2 C, 38 P) E. 1950s elections (18 C) Pages in category "1950s political events"
The Cold War (1945–1991) was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, and economic competition between the Soviet Union and its satellite states, and the powers of the Western world, led by the United States.
When the 1952 Republican National Convention opened in Chicago, most political experts rated Taft and Eisenhower as about equal in delegate vote totals. Eisenhower's managers, led by both Dewey and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., accused Taft of "stealing" delegate votes in Southern states such as Texas and Georgia, and claimed that Taft's leaders in those states had unfairly ...
In the 1950s, France was swept by a right-wing populist movement founded by a rural bookstore owner named Pierre Poujade.. Poujade, a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II and a powerful ...
Politics portal; 1950s portal; This category is for politics in the United States in the decade ...
For the news media and all those social media tirades, the current Biden situation is a gift, a 24/7 headline, with ‘continuing coverage’ sprouting from every political and not-so political ...